Yes, absolutely. What I have found, in my experience, is that when offenders are kept off the streets, that's when we see crime rates starting to diminish.
I did mention that we're experiencing the lowest rate of incarceration in nearly 20 years, but we also see issues with the bail system here in Manitoba. You will quite often hear the term “revolving door”, where offenders are not kept in remand or kept in incarceration until court dates. Typically that results in further crimes being committed by those same individuals. I can't remember the statistic on rehabilitation, but I believe the statistic on that is that, unless an individual is sentenced to more than five years, rehabilitation is not likely.
I've been involved with many units, one being the stolen auto unit, which included intense supervision. We basically took the issue out of the hands of the courts' intensive supervision because, at one time, Winnipeg was number one in auto thefts in the country, unfortunately, and we're not proud of that. We were experiencing close to 35 stolen vehicles per day, and the courts weren't helping at the time, so the Winnipeg auto theft suppression strategy was implemented, which involved expedited warrant systems, a partnership with probations and a partnership with Crown prosecutors where, if a breach of probation occurred, that person was put into incarceration within a day.